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Hardcover. Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evoke the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present as the fashionable irritation.. Editor(s): Molle, Leen van; Wils, Kaat; Peeters, Evert. Num Pages: 264 pages, 35 ills. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRLM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457730
- ISBN
- 9781845457730
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Condition: New
€ 151.48
€ 151.48
Hardcover. Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the human and non-human or the material and ideal. Editor(s): Jensen, Casper Bruun; Rodje, Kjetil. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456146
- ISBN
- 9781845456146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.34
€ 152.34
Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
. Ed(S): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob
Hardback. The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. Editor(s): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455873
- ISBN
- 9781845455873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.16
€ 164.16
Hardback. In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 ills. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455712
- ISBN
- 9781845455712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.06
€ 152.06
Hardback. Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht's triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454517
- ISBN
- 9781845454517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.54
€ 152.54
Hardcover. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this important book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. Most accounts concentrate on the role of the United States and look at these events through the bipolar prism of Soviet-American relations. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 744.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454272
- ISBN
- 9781845454272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.24
€ 164.24
Hardback. Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German-Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and then to America. It is populated by characters, such as Wolfgang, who led urban reform; Ernst who directed an anti-Nazi resistance movement; and Antonie the actress. Num Pages: 80 b/w ills. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454166
- ISBN
- 9781845454166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.41
€ 153.41
Hardcover. During the 4 decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today's scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the history of the multi-ethnic social democratic labor movement. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 546 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; HBJD; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 546
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453954
- ISBN
- 9781845453954
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Condition: New
€ 201.44
€ 201.44
Hardback. Israeli youth voyages to Poland are popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. This work demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors and finally witnesses of the witnesses. Num Pages: 328 pages, 27 photos, 7 tables, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1FBH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453626
- ISBN
- 9781845453626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.05
€ 152.05
Hardback. Based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon between 1925, the start of their activities, and 2005. This work takes part in the "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an site of conversation across disciplinary lines. Num Pages: 368 pages, 50 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 1HFJA; 3JJ; AJC; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 177 x 27. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453435
- ISBN
- 9781845453435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.79
€ 164.79
Hardcover. Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. This book shows that research on apprenticeship and learning on the shop floor is associated with migration patterns, family economy and household strategies, gender perspectives, urban identities and general educational and pedagogical contexts. Editor(s): Munck, Professor Bert de; Kaplan, Steven Laurence; Soly, Hugo. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 figs, 14 tables, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: HBTK; JHBL; JNRV; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453411
- ISBN
- 9781845453411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.23
€ 152.23
Hardback. Addresses issues such as the victim thesis, Austrians as perpetrators, and Austrian anti-Semitism. This book discusses the various proposals for post-war Austria and makes it clear that the question of Austria was from the very beginning inextricably linked with the more important question of Germany. Num Pages: 172 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453268
- ISBN
- 9781845453268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.55
€ 151.55
Hardback. Focusing on organization, resistance and political culture, this collection covers topics ranging from socialism to anarchism, from the formation of the liberal state in the 19th century to the Civil War, and from women in the work place to the fate of the unions under Franco. Editor(s): Piqueras, Jose A.; Sanz Rozalen, Vicent. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBTB; JHBL; KCF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452964
- ISBN
- 9781845452964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.49
€ 163.49
hardcover. In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory defi nitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. Editor(s): Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452544
- ISBN
- 9781845452544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.50
€ 151.50
Hardback. Using case studies, focusing on nation and nationalism, military and war, colonialism, politics and protest, class and citizenship, religion, Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the Holocaust, and the body and sexuality, this work demonstrates the power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments. Editor(s): Hagemann, Karen; Quataert, Jean H. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452070
- ISBN
- 9781845452070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.67
€ 152.67
Hardcover. Provides information on the complexity of German policy toward the Jews and the policy of forced labour. This book describes the daily life of the Jewish slave labourers; and traces Reich economic policy and the huge concerns that used slave labour. Translator(s): IBRT. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 ills., 3 maps, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452063
- ISBN
- 9781845452063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.85
€ 152.85
The Limits of Meaning. Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianit...
. Ed(S): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt
Hardback. Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, this book suggests that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. Editor(s): Engelke, Matthew; Tomlinson, Matt. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRCR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451707
- ISBN
- 9781845451707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.78
€ 151.78
The Society of the Cincinnati. Conspiracy and Distrust in Early Americ...
Markus (University Of Munich) Hunemorder
Hardback. Num Pages: bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JPWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845451073
- ISBN
- 9781845451073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.83
€ 151.83
Hardback. The robbery and restitution of Jewish property are two inextricably linked social processes. This book outlines the mechanisms and scope of the European-wide program of plunder, before assessing the effectiveness and historical implications of post-war restitution efforts. Editor(s): Dean, Martin; Goschler, Constantin; Ther, Philipp. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450823
- ISBN
- 9781845450823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.74
€ 152.74
The Women's Camp in Moringen. A Memoir of Imprisonment in Nazi Germany...
Herz, Gabriele. Ed(S): Caplan, Jane
Hardback. Editor(s): Caplan, Jane. Translator(s): Herz, Hildegard; Hartig, Howard. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845450779
- ISBN
- 9781845450779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.98
€ 151.98